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[hellonearthisman]

Looking to see if the Google calendar can help working out the
timetable.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengovtbarcamp/web/calendar-time-table
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[hellonearthisman]

meh embedding problem...

[Mike Riversdale]

Can ya add me - mike.ri...@miramarmike.co.nz
Can help upload the schedule on the day

[hellonearthisman]

update to reflect unagenda 29-7.

[Mike Riversdale]

Embedded, top stuff!

[hellonearthisman]

Looks like it's embedded, but it's just a picture that I update
manually.
Needs google wave to get everything working together.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengovtbarcamp/web/calendar-time-table?hl=en

[hellonearthisman]

added more location information.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengovtbarcamp/web/calendar-time-table

[Mike Riversdale]

Have shared the OpenGovtNZ Google Calendar with everyone subscribed to
this group

It's all about timing and Google's was very neat.
"Sharing with Google Groups" http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharing-with-google-groups.html

What does it mean to share the calendar using the
'nzopengo...@googlegroups.com' email?
To be honest, not sure - if you've got GMail you've got Calendar and
it should simply appear in your list of available calendars. For
everyone else not using Google ... dunno. Let us all know what it
feels like your end.

Oh, permissions on the calendar for the group are that you can "Make
changes to events"

The calendar will be updated ASAP on the morning of the barcamp so we
can all see the agenda online, via the iPhones, iCAL and the like.

[David Earle]

And for those who use notebooks and stylus' that are made of paper and ink?

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[Kevin Richards]

I suspect that that would make it very hard to consume, integrate and publish the data in question (ie electronic data!).

Kevin

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[David Earle]

My point is that not all of us have laptops, iPhones or equivalent - so if
the agenda is run electronically on the day - that will exclude a good number
of participants.

[Courtney Johnston]

My understanding is that we're running a normal bar camp.

The time-table will be drawn up on a whiteboard or a big piece of
paper and then, come starting time, people who want to secure a
speaking slot grab a pen and slap up their topic.

The timetable then stays up where everyone can see it. It's a 'living'
timetable - if you want to refine your topic or combine with another
speaker, that's not a problem. If someone wants to transcribe the
timetable onto the Google calendar, that's lovely, but no one will
lose out if they're not online.

Personally, I plan to stay offline all day and concentrate on what
people are saying, not screens.

[Mark Harris]

David Earle wrote:
> My point is that not all of us have laptops, iPhones or equivalent - so if
> the agenda is run electronically on the day - that will exclude a good number
> of participants.
>

It will not ONLY be electronic, but electronic will be available.

[Mark Harris]

Courtney Johnston wrote:
> My understanding is that we're running a normal bar camp.
>

Yup

> The time-table will be drawn up on a whiteboard or a big piece of
> paper and then, come starting time, people who want to secure a
> speaking slot grab a pen and slap up their topic.
>

Yup.

> The timetable then stays up where everyone can see it. It's a 'living'
> timetable - if you want to refine your topic or combine with another
> speaker, that's not a problem. If someone wants to transcribe the
> timetable onto the Google calendar, that's lovely, but no one will
> lose out if they're not online.
>

Yup. I believe that Mike intends to transcribe it into the Google
calendar for those that want it.

> Personally, I plan to stay offline all day and concentrate on what
> people are saying, not screens.
>

Me too! </aol>

~mark

[David Earle]

Thinking about this a bit more - one way I would like to see the google
calendar used is to gather together our notes and insights from the sessions.
So if Mike (and others) can record the topics of the sessions as they happen
on the day - then the rest of us can go into the calendar later and add our
notes and impressions - and "hey presto!" we have a collaborative record of
the day.

-----Original Message-----
From: nzopengo...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:nzopengo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Harris
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:27 a.m.
To: nzopengo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [nzopengovtbarcamp] Re: Discussion on calendar-time-table

> The timetable then stays up where everyone can see it. It's a 'living'
> timetable - if you want to refine your topic or combine with another
> speaker, that's not a problem. If someone wants to transcribe the
> timetable onto the Google calendar, that's lovely, but no one will
> lose out if they're not online.
>
Yup. I believe that Mike intends to transcribe it into the Google calendar
for those that want it.

> Personally, I plan to stay offline all day and concentrate on what
> people are saying, not screens.
>
Me too! </aol>

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[Gavin Treadgold]

David - these would probably be better captured in the open.govt.nz
wiki.

<http://wiki.open.org.nz/Main_Page>

What we could do is add a link to each session entries URL field in
the Google calendar that links through to the session's wiki page? Of
course we could categorise every session page with
[[Category:BarCamp09]] or similar to provide a nice index of all the
pages relevant to the BC as well.

Cheers Gav

[Kevin Richards]

The beauty of all the new fangled technology (eg twitter, google apps, blogging, ...) is that they are easy, fast and instant. Simple annotations and comments (stats too) as the meeting/conference progresses. It only takes a few seconds to add a comment at the time, causing little distraction, and if everyone has an input this results in contributions from a wide range of people, creating useful (semi-useful) data/annotations etc. It is always less attractive and less easy to add annotations/comments later.

Kevin

[David Earle]

Good idea, Gavin.

I had thought that you could add comments and notes to events in Google
Calendar - I have had a look and can't find that feature - not sure if it has
been discontinued or I am totally confused with something else.

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Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 2:18 p.m.
To: nzopengo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [nzopengovtbarcamp] Re: Discussion on calendar-time-table

[Mike Riversdale]

I think there are those amongst us that love the geekery of having a
Google Calendar on the day BUT will probably go along with everyone
else and look at the bits of paper on the wall :-)

But I do like the idea of using the calendar to record each session.
(not sure how it'll work though with multiple editors - a Google Doc
will handle it just fine, share and share alike peeps)

Editing an event looks like this - let me know if you can't edit and
get to this:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/miramarmike/Enterprise%202%20NZ%20Style/GoogleCalendar/editing_barcamp_calendar_session.png

[Jo - Mesh|net]

I'm a total geek, so would go as far as to suggest you could auto dump
the event tweets into a (separate?) calendar as well... ;)
Twistory <http://twistory.net/>

[Brett Cooper]

A google doc for each session would work better, the calendar description would contain the link to that shared document.

The tweets are already in a log as I think they will have a unique hash tag for the event.

2009/8/19 Mike Riversdale <mike.ri...@miramarmike.co.nz>